Beyond Italy and New Spain Itineraries for an Iberian Art History ...

Beyond Italy and New Spain
Itineraries for an Iberian Art History (1440-1640)
Convened by Michael Cole and Alessandra Russo
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, April 27
9:00: Welcoming remarks
Dean Carlos J. Alonso, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University
Pamela Smith, Acting Academic Director, Italian Academy, Columbia University
9:20: Michael Cole and Alessandra Russo, Introduction
Session 1:
~ Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco (Columbia University), Discussant
9:30-10:20:
Diane Bodart (Université de Poitiers)
“The King’s Ubiquity: Ceremonial Uses of the Royal Portrait in the Kingdoms of the
Spanish Habsburgs”
10:20-11:10:
Jesús Escobar (Northwestern University) and Michael Schreffler (Virginia
Commonwealth University)
“The Spanish Habsburg Palace: Ideals and Innovations”
* 11:10-11:30 coffee break
Session 2:
~ Luke Syson (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Discussant
11:30-12:20:
Sabina de Cavi (Getty Research Institute)
“Neapolitan Renaissance Sculpture in Spanish Sardinia: A Matter of Archaisms and
Style”

12:20-1:10:
Pablo Francisco Amador Marrero (Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM,
México)
“From Iberian Europe to the Kingdom of the New Spain: New Proposals for the Origin
and Interpretation of Corn Cane Sculptures”
* 1:10-2:30 LUNCH BREAK
Session 3:
~ Vittoria di Palma (Columbia University), Discussant
2:30-3:20:
Joana Barreto (Villa Medici, Rome)
“Spain, Italy, Flanders: Some Dynamics of Neapolitan Renaissance Portraiture”
3:20-4:10:
Laura Fenelli (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence)
“From Calabria to Uruguay: The Miraculous Image of St. Dominic of Soriano and its
Copies around the Iberian Atlas”
* 4:10-4:30 coffee break
Session 4:
~ Carl Strehlke (Philadelphia Museum of Art), Discussant
4:30-5:20:
Anette Schaffer (Universität Bern)
“Christ’s Suffering and the Power of Meaningful Forms: Michelangelo’s Crucifix for
Vittoria Colonna in its Iberian Context”
5:20-6:10:
Gabriela Siracusano (CONICET/UNSAM, Buenos Aires) and Agustina Rodríguez
Romero (CONICET/UNSAM, Buenos Aires)
“In Need of Flames: The Appropriation of a Last Judgment Motif from Rome to the
Globalized Christian World”
SATURDAY, April 28
Session 5:
~ Vidya Dehejia (Columbia University), Discussant
9:30 - 10:20:
Maria Matilde Benzoni (Università degli Studi di Milano)

“Aspects of the Iberian Globalization: Artistic and Cultural Dynamics in Francesco
Carletti’s Ragionamenti del mio viaggio intorno al mondo”
10:20-11:10:
Esteban García Brosseau (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM, Mexico)
“Lust and Wanderlust in the Age of Iberian Expansion, from Portuguese India to the
Viceroyalty of Peru”
~ 11:10-11:30 coffee break
Session 6:
~ Keith Moxey (Barnard College), Discussant
11:30-12:20:
Felipe Pereda (John Hopkins University)
“Painters as ‘Go-Betweens’: Brussels, Venice, Seville”
12:20-1:10:
Jens Baumgarten (Universidade Federal de Saõ Paolo)
“The Circulation of Concepts and Artifacts: Visual Systems in Colonial Brazil”
* 1:10-2:30 LUNCH BREAK
Session 7:
~ Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (Princeton University), Discussant
2:30-3:20:
Sylvie Deswarte-Rosa (CNRS, Université de Lyon)
“The Fifth Empire and Prisca Pictura”
3:20-4:10:
Serge Gruzinski ((CNRS, EHESS / Princeton University)
“From Mexico City to Liampo: Sixteenth-century Arts in a Global Perspective”
4:10: Final Reception